Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:56:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> To: James Riendeau <jtriende@wisc.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/UNIX backups to DVD+RW Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0506171156180.18343@chylonia.3miasto.net> In-Reply-To: <BED72BCA.81BD%jtriende@wisc.edu> References: <BED72BCA.81BD%jtriende@wisc.edu>
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> I'm trying to setup backups to the DVD-RW drive on our new server before it > goes into production. I've got the DVD-RW drive working, and I figured out > how to dump to it: > > # dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0 > # dump -0 -uL -C16 -B4589840 -P 'growisofs -speed=4 -Z /dev/cd0=/dev/fd/0' > /usr > with both DVD+RW and DVD-RW i was able to write DIRECTLY to /dev/ under NetBSD if only blocks were 32k should be possible with FreeBSD too. > A test restore comes out clean: > > # restore -Nxvb /dev/cd0 > > The problem is most of the partitions are tiny (< 1G) and I would like to > fit more then one partition on each DVD. I figured just passing -M (append > data) instead of -Z (new session) would do it: > > # dump -0 -uL -C16 -a -P 'growisofs -speed=4 -M /dev/cd0=/dev/fd/0' /home > > But growisofs fails with :-( /dev/cd0 doesn't look like isofs..., and of > course dump fails with "Broken pipe". > > Any clues to how to get this to work? (Webpage link is sufficient if there > is something out there. I couldn't find one.) > > I'm fairly new to the FreeBSD/UNIX world, so please be gentle. > > Thanks, > > -james > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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